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toilet paper
So, you've replaced your regular light bulbs with the energy-efficient fluorescent kind, you drive a hybrid car and, of course, you recycle. But if you insist on using "soft" toilet paper, you're still not doing everything you can to save the planet. Why?
Because the ingredient which makes toilet paper soft . . . is TREE PULP.
In other words, you can save the planet by using "rough" toilet paper that's produced entirely from recycled fibers. Or you can use "soft" toilet paper . . . and kill trees.
OTHER TOILET PAPER FACTS:
Sales of premium "soft" toilet paper increased by as much as 40% last year.
Cottonelle and Scott get as much as 22% of their tree pulp from Canadian boreal forests . . . where some of the trees are 200 YEARS OLD.
Toilet paper produced from 100% recycled fibers makes up only 2% of sales for at-home use.
The pulp from one eucalyptus tree can produce as many as 1,000 rolls of toilet paper.
Overall, the average American uses 23.6 rolls of toilet paper each year.
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This might be "T.M.I."... BUT
Who needs toilet paper when you got TABO!? (Where all my Pin@ys at!)
Okay, so I do use tp... pretty often in fact; however, I growing up, my family kept several Filipino traditions--whether it be eating some of my mom's famous pancit and lumpia, wearing a barong tagalog tailored by my tiyo, and of course the traditional use of tabo. Many of those cultural traditions I continue to embrace, though American public restrooms just doesn't quite accommodate tabo use!
If this is new to some folks, check it out an article about it here: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/782151/tabo_the_toi...
This is just an example of how some cultures have always had "green" traditions and how important it is to include these contributions in the EJ movement.
Thanks for sharing, Calvin.
Thanks for sharing, Calvin.